Hi Everyone!
We've funded and over the next 14 days or so BackerKit will be charging and processing the funds for the Campaign. There are some failed charges, which BackerKi...
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Lola | JohnsonOfair
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Only 7 Hours Left ~ Bookshops, Prompts and Rambles
Hi Everyone!
We're in the last seven hours of the campaign, and I can't say enough how much I appreciate and am grateful for your support. Getting to create something that s...
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Lola | JohnsonOfair
17 days ago
A New Bookshop Task!
We're in the last hours of the campaign and if we blow through our next two Stretch Goals then that means we get to add a new task to The Wanderer's Bookshop. Nicely rounding out our die and bringing it to a D12 for choosing between tasks instead of D10, which also means that ...
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Lola | JohnsonOfair
17 days ago
A snippet from my journal and finding sources
We're approaching the last 48 hours!
Great news! We've unlocked the expanded Parallel Play mechanics by getting enough digital community copies to meet our goal. So i'll be...
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Lola | JohnsonOfair
19 days ago
4 Days to go!
Hi Everyone!
I had an update half written for Friday and got taken out by how extremely busy that day was, I spent much of the weekend attempting to recover.
Big news!...
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Lola | JohnsonOfair
24 days ago
Book Recommendations! A Card for a new path
Share a book you've read or one from your collection that you feel fits with one of the prompts.
A new card drawn from the Oracle of Many Paths Tarot Deck
45 - Ten of Cups ~ Depicting The Hope Tree at the edge of the water
A book that leaves blessings for the past in hope f...
Kicking off our Indie bookshop recommendations for our community goals.
Share your favourite independent bookshop where ever it is so we can get to 30 recommendations. When we reach 30 recommendations every backer from A Digital Bookshop up will receive digital map fragments for each of those bookshops that you can include in your journals.
We've funded and over the next 14 days or so BackerKit will be charging and processing the funds for the Campaign. There are some failed charges, which BackerKit will email you about if this has occured with your pledge, you will have, I think, until next week to double check and correct this.
Now continues/begins the next steps to fulfillment. I've put together a rough timeline. open image in new tab to enlarge.
Things are subjects to change in that they might be completed earlier or later, but this is the current plan which builds in a bit of buffer either way. As you know a first draft is already with Brent (Our Fabulous Editor) and some playtesting copies containing the core game are out too. There will be some revisions based on incoming feedback this week and a more complete playtesting copy will go out to Bookshop Patrons later in the month along with their special survey. Designs are being done and finalised for the extras and I've reached out to get started on the art for The Curators Notebook. The next time you'll hear from me is when funds are received and surveys are ready to go out towards the middle/ end of this month.
We didn't quite meet all of our community goals. However I will collate a plain text book list of the recommendations given with the cards and prompts for them, so if you want to still add your recommendations to the resource, please do. This is likely something I will do in May. We were super close to the Independent Bookshop goal, so i'll also include a plain text list of those and if I have spare time I will pick a few to create map fragments from. So much appreciation for you all!
Lola
p.s. If you are in the UK and feel like travelling to Glasgow later this month for the Inaugural Groundhog Play, sign ups are open for another week for this free Playtesting Convention. Groundhog Play Info
We're in the last seven hours of the campaign, and I can't say enough how much I appreciate and am grateful for your support. Getting to create something that speaks from my heart to yours and to work with others to create something truly beautiful is everything to me. I hope that you get as much joy from playing it as I do from writing it, collaborating and reading books.
Join the discussions to help us unlock more things, we're over halfway to shouting out 30 Independent Bookshops and I have to add some shout outs for the shops that were willing to chat to me and inspired and supported my research. The Book Nook and Category Is in Glasgow, Common Press and New Beacon books in London, Books & Books in Florida and a tiny little secondhand bookshop in France whose name I don't remember (it was half my lifetime ago) but the magical paved path that wended it's way through the bookshelves will stick with me forever.
I've drawn three new cards for book prompts, so share a book from your collection you feel aligns with the prompts and help us build a community resource of extra prompts and recommendations.
2 of Wands from the Elemental Strength Tarot, The Sun from the Alleyway Tarot and the Nine of Air from the Rosewood Tarot.
A book that fears the unknown, A book that obliterates the darkness and a book that confronts fear
Speaking of which if you're interested in hearing me ramble about books and also to check out the rest of the Weird Place stream (apologies that it didn't seem to be set up properly to view from here). See my chat here and watch the full stream here.
The Weird Place are funding Residue a Solo Survival Sci-Fi Horror TTRPG on Kickstarter about wandering endless landscapes, searching ruins, and trying to stay alive long enough to find meaning. It looks like a fantastic game and I ran to support it. Watch the stream to let Gabriel and Le tell you more about their game themselves. As well as games from so many other fantastic creators!
For now share away and lets see if we can unlock the last Stretch Goals. We've got a little sun in Scotland (it's a bright day), that and you carry me through the rest of the day, I hope some of my joy can help carry you through yours.
We're in the last hours of the campaign and if we blow through our next two Stretch Goals then that means we get to add a new task to The Wanderer's Bookshop. Nicely rounding out our die and bringing it to a D12 for choosing between tasks instead of D10, which also means that both Events and the new task get to be core tasks in the game book instead of supplements that you can substitute in place of the others.
You get to decide what the new task should be and then I or one of our wonderful collaborators will make it happen! What do you dream of being able to do for your own magical bookshop?
The mechanics behind each task are carefully woven to incorporate different combinations of reading, collecting sources, journaling and creating something new.
Currently we've got "Building a Window Display" which looks at you finding one to three books to read using tarot card prompts and taking elements and themes from them to create a picture of how those all come together in a way that hooks a passerby.
"Cataloguing an intake" which incorporates books and other items that have appeared in your shop that you find or create and make a proper place for them in the bookshop along with writing a handy note of your impressions for anyone looking.
"Answering your question" which is your own mystery solving where you collect, find and incorporate different sources to build out a wider picture and story around the mystery as well as solve it.
Along with further worldbuilding, creating, and reading tasks like; transporting the bookshop to a new place and collecting stories to anchor it, creating something new from the fragments of broken works that have made their way to the bookshop, exploring the history of the bookshop and the curators before you, collecting stories of the people who visit, finding books for customers and more.
Tell us what you'd like to see and we'll put new tasks to a vote!
